Category: Haps

R.I.P. Lucky… You grooved us at Congo Square in 2004, shortly before the thunder and lightning. Vigilante attacks after Dube murder

… and come to think of it, I haven’t seen ours in a while either. Mired in scandal, a mayor goes missing Hey look! They think their mayor is a national embarrassment too!

New Orleans Inspector General suggested yesterday, in a round-about way, that the Mayor’s office was hindering his ability to do what the voters of New Orleans appointed him to do. Several times in his interview with a seemingly-drugged and goofy Garland Robinette late yesterday, Cerasoli made clear statements that it wasn’t the city council throwing…

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Just a hint to members of the KKK out there, if you are going to drive by a group of 200 black people with a truck full of weapons and a noose hanging from the back, don’t do it when bazillions of national media and African American leaders are in protest mode around the…

I’ve got a bad feeling about Riley’s latest response to New Orleans’ crime problem. In case you haven’t heard, he plans to add another 20 hours of work to an average NOPD patrol officer’s work week in the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th districts. The plan would cost the city 5.7 million and only last…

A crippled pornographer has sponsored a polygraph test administered by a lie detector to the stars and in that test a prostitute has said that even though she has lied all her life, this time she is telling the truth and the test proves it. The test is in reference to a sexual relationship the…

I saw over at Ashmo’s blog that Glenn Beck has been running his mouth off about New Orleans, uttering quotes like: I`m not sure still that we should bother rebuilding it and you know what, we should just walk away from that city. Why are we there? But the tossed-up thing is throughout the interview,…

Sources: Federal probe nets councilman in parking lot payment scheme City Councilman and future mayoral contender Oliver Thomas has reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to charges of demanding illegal payments from a City Hall vendor and is expected to resign his at-large seat on the council as early as Monday, If…

Nagin calls N.O.’s dangerous image a “two-edged sword” From the article: Responding to a TV reporter’s question about whether New Orleans’ murder rate hurts the city’s tourism economy, Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday called the phenomenon a “two-edged sword.” “Do I worry about it? Somewhat. It’s not good for us, but it also keeps the…

Peter Busowski, I salute you sir. From the Letters pages of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Letter of the day: New Orleans knows worth of Bush promises When I heard President Bush promise to rebuild the Interstate 35W bridge, all I could think was, “Haven’t the people of the Twin Cities suffered enough?” As a resident of…